Or to use cheap mid day electric power when the sun is up to generate gigantic blocks of ice that can then be used with cooling loops to air condition buildings.
https://www.caiso.com/informed/Pages/ManagingOversupply.aspx
Make electricity cheap when the sun shines, and expensive at night, and the market will shift demand. There are lots of cheap and easy ways to shift demand, I've outlined several on HN.
Doesn't really seem to fit with having surplus power.
Our regulators rubber stamp every tariff plan the company puts forth, and lets them get a larger profit margin on capex vs opex. So of course the optimal strategy is to run all equipment to failure and replace it with maximally expensive everything as frequently as possible.
Torching the state is the business plan.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...
Edit:
$385.06/1033kW = $0.37/kWh
A couple of servers really screws over the electric bill.
Maybe keep the grid link attached to a meter and 100A panel hooked up to nothing if needed for municipal compliance reasons.
I don't have a great explanation for why it isn't happening faster, but I predict a substantial exodus from the California grid. Especially so in places with gas bans or among folks who electrify of their own accord.
But buying electricity at $50/mwhr at noon and reselling it at $200 mwh six hours later.
Sounds pretty wild but apparently scales up very well thanks the to square cube law.
[0] - https://news.mit.edu/2018/liquid-silicon-store-renewable-ene...
Very inefficient compared to heat pumps or even peltiers for that matter.
> store heat in tanks
Oh I already do something similar at home for sub-ambient cooling but I wouldn’t call it cheap.
> If the $ per Wh cost from PV is extremely low
IMO this is roughly equivalent to saying “assume that you could clone dinosaurs, and that you could fill a park with these dinosaurs, and that you could get a ticket to this ‘Jurassic Park,’ and that you could stroll throughout this park without getting eaten, clawed, or otherwise quantum entangled with a macroscopic dinosaur particle”: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thisworldofo...
> IMO this is roughly equivalent to saying “assume that you could clone dinosaurs, and that you could fill a park with these dinosaurs, and that you could get a ticket to this ‘Jurassic Park,’ and that you could stroll throughout this park without getting eaten, clawed, or otherwise quantum entangled with a macroscopic dinosaur particle”
The premise of the article is that the $/Wh cost from PV will become extremely low, faster than most people think. Do you have a reason to believe this is inaccurate?